Edit FCP over filesharing ethernet

After googling and looking at forums I'm not sure about this one yet. Is it or is'nt it possible to edit fcp DV or hdv footage over filesharing giga ethernet? I edit on a mac pro 2x2.33 connected to a G5 dual 1.8 with four 2TB firewire 800 discs.
Possible or not?

yes you can do this, but as afore mentioned, not so reliably. I have been working on setting up a cheap ethernet NAS soulution for a while now, and I have learned a lot about why this won't work well on a typical LAN. Editing over an ethernet cable is definitely doable, and some say better than fiber because of it's scalability, as there are now 10Gb/s ethernet, and fiber only goes to 4. But the system I just priced out is 35K. As far as connecting to another computer via gigE switch, it totally depends on how much you know about networking, and whether or not your switch can be configured for jumbo packets, and if the G5 is capable as well. Also, how much other traffic is being routed through this switch, and do you have IP reservations designated in the switch. I just did this two days ago, using two identical MacPro 3.2GHZ on a gigE switch connected to a Windows monster machine with an internal RAID 0 (software RAID, but still) and it worked seemlessly with one of them, but not with both, and I was using ProRes 422 HQ 1920x1080i footage. I was able to edit without a single dropped frame until I tired previewing on the second machine, and it dropped frames. THe first computer never dropped a single frame though, even with the other computer viewing the same files.
End result is, try it... either it works for you or it doesn't...

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